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Students in several Houses voiced opinions on the breakfast issue that differed from the college-wide norm. About 63 per cent of the students from both Mather and Dunster, two cold breakfast Houses whose residents formed an "Eggshell Alliance" that opposed the limited breakfast plan with an "eat-in" last spring, favored the return of hot breakfast...
...Agostino and Cusamano were the only other Crimson grapplers besides Beling to win two matches Saturday. Cusamano recorded a major decision over Engineer Norm Hairston 10-2 and D'Agostino shut out his MIT counterpart, Bruce Wrobel 7-0. D'Agostino's record now stands at 6-1 for the season...
...Clair's arguments are only one symptom of a widespread cultural arrogance and intolerance that emerged all too clearly in this trial. The trial itself, more than the jury's inconclusive decision, demonstrated how difficult the attainment of judicial impartiality is in a society biased toward a cultural norm many groups cannot understand or accept...
...Trying to live as a Christian when I was in high school in the late '40s, I was regarded as some kind of speckled bird," says David McKenna, 48, the Evangelical president of Seattle Pacific University. "Now when Seattle Seahawks Tackle Norm Evans states his faith in Jesus at a school assembly, he is greeted by shouts of'Right...
...great extent this has been done. Nothing lies beyond the scope of the inquiring lens. The assimilation of the world goes on faster and faster; the camera furnishes us with our prototypes. "Instead of just recording reality," Sontag argues, "photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality, and of realism." Nevertheless, the photo is a fiction: reality unfolds in time, and photographs do not. "Through photographs," Sontag writes, "the world becomes a series of unrelated, freestanding particles ... It is a view of the world which denies interconnectedness, continuity...